MS office network problem

I have a laptop (W2000) as part of my home network. My Office 97 products operate perfect as long as I am on the network, but as soon as I disconnect the network cable Word and Excel start to give program errors ie WINWORD.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows.
With Excel this will happen randomly if certain functions are used.
Obviously these apps sense the network is not present, but what controls this and how did it get this way??
This is a real pain when I travel.
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It would help if I knew what functions cause errors.

Look in MS Word, under Tools-Options in the File Locations tab (or in MS Excel under the General tab) and see if any paths there lead off the computer.

 

Some Excel functions (calculation-type, not feature-type) run from add-ins. Perhaps you don't have the add-ins installed on your hard drive??

 

Path only shows C:\---That should be OK
Word will not even fully load. The error comes very quickly.
It indicates the error is written to the 'error log' do you know where that is??
When it tries to load there is network activity for some reason.
This is where the error is coming from.

 

Try this, Terry. While disconnected from the network:

Hit Start-Run and type:

winword.exe /regserver


Do the same for:

excel.exe /regserver


See how that works for you.

 

Thanks for the try, but still no cigar.
When I run that command line , Word doesn't even open, something runs for a second then nothing.
Terry

 

Alright. You need to get the big guys to give you admin access on your 'puter, sounds like. And if you already have that, then they've screwed something up. Have them check out your rights/login on your 'puter.

Other stuff:

A big maybe here.

While ON the network.

Start-Settings-Control panel.
Add/remove
Choose office 97
Choose install.
Once you've got the screen that looks like a list of drive letters, choose the top one (office 97) and choose "run all from my 'puter"

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If that doesn't work, then get the install CD. Uninstall Office, then completely remove it by using Eraser 97

Then reinstall all while NOT connected to the network.